Gate-opening device.



No. 824,730. I Q PATENTED JULY 3, 1906;

' H. M. LOGKETTJ GATE OPENING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 3. 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HILTON M. LOOKETT, OF HENDERSON, KENTUCKY. GATE-OPENING DEVICE.

No. 824,730. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 3, 1906. Application filed January 3, 1905- Serial No. 239,402. To all whom it may concern: somewhat to the rear of the post A, with re- Be it known that I, HILTON M. Looxn'rr, a spect to the roadway, so that the free rear end citizen of the United States, residing at Henof the gate will clear the post B when swung derson, in the county of Henderson and State om one position to another. Adjacent the 5 of Kentucky, have invented anew and useful road, on each side of the gate A, I arrange mprovement in Gate-Opening Devices, of posts 0, which carry pulleys C. On one side which the following is a specification. of the gate, adjacent the roadway, I arrange This inventionrelates to means forunlatcha post D, carrying a keeper D, adapted to be ing and opening agatefrom either side and also engaged by the latch E of the gate when the 10 to means for closing the gate, the device belatter is in full-open position. The post B ing operative by a person mounted or driving carries a bracket B, having therein double without the necessity of dismounting. I am pulleys B A cord E is connected at one aware of the fact that deviceshave been hereend to the latch E and passes upwardly tofore constructed with these objects in view, through a perforation A formed in the upper 15 but such devices have usually been of a commember of the gate-frame, and along the top plicated nature, expensive to build and keep of the said member to its rear end, being held in repair, and liable to get out of order with in place by guide-staples E At its rear end constant use. the cord E, is connected to a cable F, which My object has been to accomplish the decable runs over one of the pulleys B to the 2o sired result with a minimum number of parts, pulley C of one post, and over the other puland these to be of a simple nature, easy to seley to the pulley C of the other post 0, and at cure, and of small cost. each end terminates in handles F. The gate With the above objects in view my invencan be unlatched and opened or closed by tion consists in hinging a gate adjacent, but drawing downwardly upon either of the han- 7o 2 5 not at one end, the gate-post carrying prodles F.

j ecting plates, between which the gate is piv- Having thus fully described my invention, oted. I then provide a post located on the what I claim as new, and desire to secure by other side of the gate and carrying a double Letters Patent, ispulley, over which runs an operating-cable A device of the kind described comprising c and which is connected to a cord leading a gate, alatch thereon, said gate being pivotalong the top of the gate to the latch. allyhung intermediate its ends between plates e invention also consists in the novel extending obliquely from a post, a post adjafeatures of construction and combination of cent the gate, pulleys carried by the post, a parts hereinafter set forth, pointed out in the cord connected to the latch and extending 8o 3 5 claim, and shown in the accompanying drawalong the upper member of the gate-frame, ing, in which I show a perspective view of my and a cable attached to the rear end of the evice complete.

In the drawing, A represents a gate of any one side of the gate and running over one of desired kind and extending between the gatesaid pulleys, and the other portion running 8 5 40 posts A and A the latter carrying a keeper around the other pulley and extending to the A and the former having upper and lower opposite side of the gate, as and for the purplates A extending obliquely from the post pose set forth.

and overlapping the top and lower sides of HILTON M. LOCKETT. the framework of the gate A, respectively, Witnesses: 5 and the gate being pivoted thereto. A post EDGAR A. ROYSTER,

1s arranged at one side of the gate and Las. R. RAsH. 

